P3D Re: One more new product

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:33 PM 3/12/98 -0700, you wrote:
>At 11:26 PM -0700 on 3/12/98, Lawrence W Kaufman wrote:
>
>
>|A megapixel "film pack" (a cartridge shaped
>|like a roll of 35 mm film) is in development
>|by Imagek, the Costa Mesa, California based
>|electronic imaging unit of Irvine Sensors Corp.
>|The EFS-1 pack is a 1.3 million-pixel imaging
>|and storage device that fits into a film cavity
>|of a 35 mm camera. It is being billed as a way
>|to convert any 35 mm camera immediately into
>|a digital camera.
>|
>
>This is exciting news to me, assuming it's priced so as to
>be competitive with the other 1.x million pixel systems (like
>the Olympus). In fact, I'd welcome it on the basis that with
>a limited resolution image (in comparision with traditional
>film) what you really *need* is to be able to use zoom/tele
>lenses to fill the image frame (for standard SLRs at least).
>
>One slight cautionary note, though. I once took my Realist
>down to the local camera shop (a real one, not a 1 hour
>finisher) as I wanted to check the flash sync (old hands here
>will remember extended discussions on this a couple of years ago).
>It turned out that their "standard" 35mm sensor which fit onto the
>film plane would NOT fit onto the Realist - the film channel 
>was too restricted space wise.

There are other reasons it won't work with a realist.  It's probably
designed to have an 8 perf. CCD array centered behind a single lens, not
two 5 perf. CCDs at Realist separation.  It should, however, work with a
splitter.  Now all we need is a "keystone correction" filter for Photoshop ...

-pd


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